Diet For Dogs After Gallbladder Removal

Carol jean tillman.

Diet for dogs after gallbladder removal. After gallbladder removal dogs require a low fat diet which should have been discussed with you when you picked up sky. Of the numerous case studies one of the most well known is in the case of a 12 year old cocker spaniel who was presented to canadian vets for excessive panting strange behaviors and following x rays a distended liver and gallbladder. Although the surgery that involves the removal of the gall bladder is not without complications dogs can live full and active lives after their gall bladder is completely removed. Tumors or gall bladder stones can be removed and in some cases such as ruptured gall bladder or cancer the bladder itself needs to be removed.

Though it s hard to pinpoint when vets determined that gallbladder removal was possible and helpful for dogs it s a practice that has been going on for years. Generally a low fat prescription dog food is offered recommended on discharge along with instructions a lean protein and high fibre diet would help but you need to see how sky is with the food given. He is currently fed a combo of wd chicken dog food and iams low fat he is still starving he is not too thin but is ravenously hungry and eating his own poo we have been feeding him an anti eating poo medicine called deter by excel but is not working either. Hi sciascia for your rat terrier beano with gallbladder sludge and liver disease due to inability of the liver to drain bile into the gall bladder i am very glad that the alkaline phosphatase has returned almost to normal using conventional methods.